Ordinarily I would have been in the zendo right now. Ordinarily it would have been my turn to give the little dharma talkette tonight, and I intended to commemorate International Women’s Day (which is tomorrow) by talking about American women in Zen. However, I was not able to be in the zendo this evening, so Joe’s talk was about Vimalakirti — a far-out Buddhist teacher dude from back in the Buddha’s day.